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Democratic candidates agree on expanded US military aggression in the Middle East
Post Date: 2008-05-05 10:53:42 by richard9151
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5 May 2008 In dueling television appearances Sunday morning, Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton declared their determination to escalate US military action in the Middle East, disagreeing mainly over which country should be targeted first. Obama called for a “surge” of US troops into Afghanistan, while Clinton reaffirmed her bloodcurdling rhetoric about the “obliteration” of Iran. Both candidates demonstrated that their criticism of the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq does not represent opposition to American militarism, but rather a concern—voiced even by significant sections of the military ...
Five Indicators that Point to Clinton preparing to Stop Her Campaign after NC/IN
Post Date: 2008-05-05 00:28:59 by nolu_chan
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http://journals.democraticunderground.com/grantcart/69 Five Indicators that Point to Clinton preparing to Stop Her Campaign after NC/IN Posted by grantcart in General Discussion: Primaries Sun May 04th 2008, 01:20 PM 1) Continuing Financial Problems The Clintons were boasting about the huge bounce in fund raising after PA, including $ 10 million in one day. And yet at the end of the month there has been no announcement. If she had in fact taken in more than $ 20 million then you would expect her to boast about it. No announcement and no rumors. 2) Unable to buy enough ads. Unable to buy enough ads the campaign has thrown away the law book and made an obvious end around the rules to ...
Clinton strategists weigh 'nuclear option' to take out Obama at convention
Post Date: 2008-05-04 23:14:24 by nolu_chan
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Clinton strategists weigh 'nuclear option' to take out Obama at convention RAW STORY Published: Sunday May 4, 2008 Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign claims to have a secret weapon up their sleeve. According to a report Sunday, Clinton's campaign could force the Democratic National Committee to seat Florida and Michigan, thereby potentially giving her the votes she needs to secure the Democratic nomination. The climate, however, doesn't appear to be ripe. Campaign strategists tell Thomas Edsall of the Huffington Post that "any attempt to deploy it would require a sharp (and by no means inevitable) shift in the political climate within Democratic ...
Hillary Clinton Doesn't Listen to Economists
Post Date: 2008-05-04 23:10:42 by nolu_chan
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Hillary Clinton Doesn't Listen to Economists Robert Reich's Blog Sunday, May 04, 2008 When asked this morning by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos if she could name a single economist who backs her call for a gas tax holiday this summer, HRC said "I'm not going to put my lot in with economists.” I know several of the economists who have been advising Senator Clinton, so I phoned them right after I heard this. I reached two of them. One hadn’t heard her remark and said he couldn’t believe she’d say it. The other had heard it and shrugged it off as “politics as usual.” That’s the problem: Politics as usual. The gas tax holiday is ...
Clinton has no regrets over Iran threat
Post Date: 2008-05-04 22:40:15 by DeaconBenjamin
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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA: Hillary Clinton said on Sunday she had no regrets about vowing to obliterate Iran if it used a nuclear bomb on Israel, but Barack Obama accused her of George Bush-style "saber-rattling." Clinton was asked on ABC News whether she had any regrets about threatening to "totally obliterate" the Islamic Republic if it used nuclear weapons against Israel, which prompted Tehran to complain to the UN. "Why would I have any regrets? I am asked a question about what I would do if Iran attacked our ally, a country that many of us have a great deal of, you know, connection with and feeling for," the Democratic senator said.
Clinton mailing attacks Obama on guns
Post Date: 2008-05-04 18:06:09 by Jethro Tull
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Hillary Clinton has re-opened her sharp attack on Barack Obama's position on guns, with a mailer in Indiana that seeks to raise questions about him with both supporters and opponents of gun rights. The mailing -- perhaps the sharpest-edged of Clinton's five negative mail pieces in Indiana -- casts him as a typical politician, saying different things to different audiences. It also revives his damaging comments in San Francisco that small town people cling to guns. Then, making the harsh case more broadly, the mailer asks: "What does Barack Obama really believe?" The piece is particularly striking coming from Clinton, who has been seen for most of her career as a ...
Clinton cites no economists for plan [we don't need no stinkin badges]
Post Date: 2008-05-04 14:36:05 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Clinton cites no economists for plan Posted May 4, 2008 12:10 PM by Rick Pearson INDIANAPOLIS--In an interview on ABC's This Week, Sen. Hillary Clinton couldn't name any economic experts who support her call to suspend federal gasoline taxes and finally cast opponents to her plan as coming from an "elite" mindset that has done little for the working class voters who she is actively cultivating. Speaking at an hour-long "town-hall" forum that featured voter questions from Indiana as well as North Carolina, the two states that hold primary balloting on Tuesday, Clinton also contended she never said rival Sen. Barack Obama didn't have the credentials to be ...
A Blacklash?
Post Date: 2008-05-04 13:40:26 by robin
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May 3, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist A Blacklash? By CHARLES M. BLOW Since January, the Clintons have pummeled Barack Obama with racially tinged comments and questions about his character. Hillary Clinton has questioned why he didn’t walk out on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.; why he “denounced” but didn’t “reject” Louis Farrakhan; and whether he is too chummy with the former radical Bill Ayers. She chastised his characterization of white working-class voters as being highfalutin and chided him for not agreeing to a street-fight-style debate. Bill Clinton has called Obama’s stance on the war a fairy tale, dismissed an early primary win as mere Jesse Jackson ...
Ind. and N.C.: Obama keeps poll leads and wins newspaper backing
Post Date: 2008-05-04 13:24:18 by robin
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There are new polls of the Democratic nomination race in Indiana and North Carolina today from Zogby International. They show Barack Obama holding on to a 9-percentage-point lead over Hillary Rodham Clinton in North Carolina, 48%-39%. The Indiana race is a statistical tie,with Obama edging Clinton 43%-41%. Yesterday they were one percentage point apart. As always, we caution you that these are snapshots and we don't know what voters will do when those states vote on Tuesday. In other primary news, Obama has picked up several newspaper endorsements. They include: --The Charlotte Observer. "Do the Democrats need a restoration of the past, or is it time for a change? We think ...
McCain: Iraq war was for oil?
Post Date: 2008-05-04 12:59:36 by richard9151
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Friday, May 02, 2008 At the conclusion of a town hall held this morning outside in Denver, McCain decided to toss in a plug for his upcoming energy policy rollout. But in the midst of decrying the dangers of Americans reliance on foreign oil, McCain seemed to suggest that this reliance caused the current struggle in Iraq. "My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will -- that will then prevent us -- that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East,” McCain said. This comment was initially prompted by a compliment from a ...
Spike Lee Wants Rev. Wright to 'Do the Right Thing'
Post Date: 2008-05-04 11:40:03 by christine
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The Wright Thing Director Spike Lee wants Reverend Jeremiah Wright to do the right thing and shut up. Lee tells the British newspaper The Guardian, "Jeremiah Wright needs to be quiet. If he loves Barack Obama he needs to shut up right now." And Lee hinted at a political conspiracy behind Wright's comments: "It makes me question his motives for talking. I'm starting to wonder whether somebody has been contributing to the building funds of his church. Seriously... It looks like he's being paid to keep talking." Dirty Tricks? Some automated calls to North Carolina voters implying that they are not yet legally registered to vote, have been traced to a ...
Obama's fundraising collides with his rhetoric --Union says senator did little to save jobs
Post Date: 2008-05-04 11:13:00 by Peppa
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GALESBURG, Ill. Maytag workers whose jobs were shipped to Mexico serve as consistent characters in Barack Obama's stump speech. He employs their stories in railing against corporations that use trade pacts to replace well-paid union workers with low-cost foreign ones. It is a ready applause line for the Illinois presidential hopeful, one that he has been reciting almost verbatim since he was a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2004, when appliance giant Maytag was in the process of shutting a refrigerator plant here, putting 1,600 people out of work. But the union that represented most of those Galesburg workers isn't impressed with Obama's advocacy. It has endorsed his ...
Andrew Sullivan: Obama-Clinton, a hate-filled dream ticket
Post Date: 2008-05-04 11:02:28 by robin
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It is for many in the Obama camp an unthinkable thought. But politics is sometimes the art of adjusting today to what seemed inconceivable yesterday. I'm talking about the possibility — and the powerful logic — of a unity Obama-Clinton ticket for the Democrats. I never thought I'd even consider it; but times change; politics shifts, and in the roiling flux of this American campaign, a bold unifying gesture could make the Democratic ticket — and an Obama presidency — unstoppable almost overnight. It's still highly unlikely, but so was JF Kennedy running with Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan running with the first George Bush. The rationale for a fusion ...
The Clintons and the 'War on Obama'
Post Date: 2008-05-04 10:58:56 by robin
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consortiumnews.comThe Clintons and the 'War on Obama' By Robert Parry May 4, 2008Last December, when I first learned via Clinton insiders that their “oppo” package would include Barack Obama’s associations with fiery black preacher Jeremiah Wright and Vietnam War-era radical William Ayers, I shrugged at what sounded to me like sub-standard fare from the dark side of American politics.So what if someone’s minister said some stupid things or that an aging one-time student radical had lent some support to a politician’s campaign, I thought.Besides those two themes, Clinton insiders were plotting how to exploit Obama’s past political ties to indicted ...
Judicial Watch Calls on FEC to Investigate McCain Presidential Fundraising
Post Date: 2008-05-04 10:40:31 by DeaconBenjamin
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McCain Campaign May Have Accepted In-Kind Contribution from Foreign Nationals in Contravention of Federal Election Laws Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it filed a formal complaint, dated April 22, 2008, with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) related to a fundraising luncheon held at London’s Spencer House to benefit Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign. The venue for the event was apparently donated to the campaign by foreign nationals, in violation of federal campaign finance laws. “Recent news reports suggest that Sen. John McCain and John McCain for President may have ...
Obama/Wright Mentality Catching on in Elementary School
Post Date: 2008-05-04 10:13:13 by Peppa
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The political mentality of Barack Obama and his temporarily sidelined mentor Jeremiah Wright has found fertile soil at a Brooklyn elementary school: Disturbing, gang-like graffiti is cropping up all over a Brooklyn elementary school, marring a playground, classrooms and two teachers' cars, authorities said. The troubling words "Jump White People" and abbreviation "JWP" have appeared at Public School 224 in East New York about a dozen times in the past three weeks, and some teachers are concerned that it's not being taken seriously. One day this may be the national motto, like it probably is in Zimbabwe. "> Obama captures the grade school ...
McCain's medical records release, put off twice, won't really be a "release"
Post Date: 2008-05-04 09:27:56 by Zoroaster
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McCain's medical records release, put off twice, won't really be a "release" by: Steve Perry Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 3:48:16 PM It was back in early March when we noted that the McCain campaign was promising the release of their man's medical records "in a month or so." That turned into a pledge they'd be released by April 15. Now the word is May 15. The delays have occasioned some dark speculations, but McCain's people are pleading logistical difficulties. And that may be so -- because what the McCainiacs have in mind is not really a release of medical records but a carefully managed press event. The plan, detailed by Dan Nowicki in an excellent ...
Arab Americans and Obama's false hope
Post Date: 2008-05-03 15:28:13 by Jethro Tull
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Arab Americans and Obama's false hope From:The Arab American NewsDate:February 9, 2008Author:Kanazi, RemiMore results for:arabs and obama At what point does an individual stop supporting the lesser of two evils? The question has become particularly important in the Democratic primary race, as one man has ascended to political stardom, ostensibly breaking tree from the evils of mainstream politics and creating a platform based on hope and change. This transcendent figure is presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Searching for substantive policy, I began to chip away at Obama's political posturing, and came to a daunting conclusion: there are a multitude of reasons one shouldn't vote ...
Obama taps deep pockets, overtaking Clinton in business donations
Post Date: 2008-05-03 13:28:06 by nolu_chan
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http://tinyurl.com/6lcsdx Obama taps deep pockets, overtaking Clinton in business donations 05/03/2008 @ 9:46 am Filed by John Byrne Employees in nine major industries are beginning to turn their money toward Barack Obama's campaign -- a potential new sign that US business is placing their bets on Obama to win the Democratic nomination. Campaign finance reports now show that employees of nine major US industries -- including defense, communications, health, construction and Wall Street -- gave the lion's share of their contributions to the junior senator from Illinois instead of rival Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in the first three months of 2008. All of these industries favored ...
Over 60 Foreign Policy Experts Announce Endorsement of Barack Obama
Post Date: 2008-05-03 12:33:41 by Jethro Tull
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Over 60 Foreign Policy Experts Announce Endorsement of Barack Obama From:Targeted News ServiceDate:December 19, 2007More results for:Obama's aggressive foreign policy The presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., issued the following news release: Over sixty foreign policy experts, with experience ranging from the State Department and the Pentagon, to the White House and the U.S. Congress, today announced their endorsement of Senator Barack Obama for President. The group, which includes individuals who have served under every President since John F. Kennedy, said that Obama has the judgment to lead America at this pivotal moment in history, and the ability to take on ...
Obama: Trilateral Commission's Manchurian Candidate? (Audio of Webster Tarpley on Jack Blood's Show--Must Hear!)
Post Date: 2008-05-03 12:33:25 by christine
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Obama mentor: 'Smash on, victory-eating Red Army'
Post Date: 2008-05-03 12:02:43 by christine
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The man who heavily influenced U.S. Sen. Barack Obama during his growing years wrote poetry praising the aggression of communism, criticizing "Sweet Jesus" and mocking the traditional hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers," according to an advocate for media accuracy. WND reported earlier when Cliff Kincaid wrote at Accuracy in Media about the link between Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the old Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, and Obama, who cited a mysterious "Frank" in his book. Now Kincaid has uncovered poetry written by Davis that hails the Soviet Union's Red Army, with a call to "Smash on, victory-eating Red Army," and a wide range of ...
Help pick McCain’s running mate
Post Date: 2008-05-02 23:41:15 by robin
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Open ThreadBy: bluegal @ 8:30 PM - PDT Plastic-wrap your keyboard kids, watch, then help pick McCain’s running mate. Rice for Vice? heh. Open Thread below…
Another McGaffe: McCain admits we're in Iraq for Oil
Post Date: 2008-05-02 23:04:43 by robin
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Clinton campaign, director: Clip of adviser slurring Hoosiers was doctored
Post Date: 2008-05-02 21:48:17 by robin
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(Update at bottom: Kantor angrily denies 'second slur', director says clip was doctored) A former Clinton official, who is reportedly an informal adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, is being accused of badmouthing Hoosiers in a 1993 documentary, and a clip is being circulated at YouTube and liberal blogs by Senator Barack Obama supporters just days before the Indiana Democratic primary. "With the Indiana and North Carolina primaries less than 96 hours away, making its way around the pro-Obama blogosphere is a clip in this video of former prominent Clinton administration official Mickey Kantor calling Indianans an expletive," MSNBC's ...
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